The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

A RECENT revolutionary uprising was
suppressed in the Argentine Republic,
with the lost Of four hundred Hives.
DIR. S. H. BATEMAS, of Alabama Centre,
N. Y, fell from the platform Of an excur-
sion train leaving Sanborn on the 18th,
and was killed.
OS the 18th a strike OF all the building
trades employees in st. Paul, Mimi, began,
in sympathy with the carpenters, who
are out for nine hours.
News has been received bv the Ameri-
can Board of Foreign Missions Of a
terrible famine in Asia Minor. The
harvest time has passed, but not a single
sheaf of grain viii be cut in all the plains
ordinarily so fertile, save in a few fields
artihcially watere1. The drought has
been the worst for centuries.
On the l4th while J. A. Ryan and Harry
TrelOar were drilling out blast which
missed fire in the Paint River mine at
Crystal Falls, Mich, the blast went of,
blowing of the head and arms Of both
men, and horribly hanging their bodies.
OK the 18th Rollin M. Smith, who was
Jointly indicted with Maurice B. Flynn,
for betrayal of his trust as Public Works
Commissioner in New Y York, sailed for
London on the Irave His counsel say
that he will be back in time to stand trial
in November.
THE Fulton furnace at Jackson o.,
owned by the Globe Iron Company, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the 15t h,
originating from the stack bursting The
flames spread so rapidly that John Mar
tin, the filler at the furnace, was cut of
and was burned at the top Of the stack.
Loss, S12, 900; no insurance.
The Pensyres murder trial at Buffalo,
N. Y, which has occupied four weeks,
came to an end at noon on the 10th. The
prosecution finished summing up in the
morning and the Judge charged the jury,
who retired at 12;25 p. m. The jury re-
turned a verdict in the evening of muir
der in the second degree.
A RAILROAD trestle gave way near New
port, KY, on the 18th, and four men were
fatally injured.
THE steamer Champlain was burned OF
Charlevoix, Mi ch., on the 18th, with con-
siderable loss Of life.
JOHNNY BEALL, twenty years old, of
Eaton, o., is charged, by the coroner, with
the murder of his mother.
AN extensive paper factory at Kief,
Russia, was destroyed by fire during the
night Of the 10th, involving a loss of $780,
600
DR. CARVER, the rife marl1sman, had
his eyes badly hurt on the 27th, by the
explosion Of cartridge. He will be laid
up for some time.
STEPHEN WAsHBURN, q well-known
Il
eide on the 18th by hanging He had been
mentally deranged for some time owing
to gangrene.
ABOUT ten o'clock on the morning of
the 18th two eastern bound freight trains
on the Pennsylvania Railroad collided at
RohrestOwn, Pa. An engine and five cars
were demolished No person was in
jured.
The bridge across WHIPS river in Byers-
VI { va a of foTVs
horses on the 18th. and fell through with
a crash. Joseph Deal. M. L. Pyles and a
boy named Keith went down with the
structure and were probably fatally in
jured. The bridge had been built forty
years.
A COLLISION occurred, on the 18th, be-
tween a passenger train and a freight
train on the Schuyllziu Valley railroad at
Parker's Landing, Pa. Charles Dehaven
fireman of the passenger train, was in
stantly killed, and George Paxson, the
engineer, was seriously inj ured.
FIRE broke out in the Cleveland Carbon
Works on the 18th and spread so rapidly
that many of the workmen escaped bare
headed ond in shirt-sle eves, leaving their
tools aud clothing behind. The works
were entirely destroyed. Loss, about $50,
600; insurance unknown.
THE Whitcomb Cedar Post Company's
yard at Chicago was burned on the 18th,
and the lumber yards in the vicinity were
seriously threatened There were 4,0OO,-
600 feet of cedar lumber in the yaLd. Ten
steamers and the geyser were at work on
the flames, and the fire was finally got un-
der control.
MISCELLANEOUS
SECRETARY BAYARD is informed by the
Minister of Spain in Washington that for
eigners visiting Cuba, who remain be-
yond one month, must provide themselves
with passports. Spanish consuls in the
United States are now Instructed to affx
visa to United States pass ports, at the
cost Of one dollar
THE worst break ever known in the his
tory of the Chicago Board of Trade oc-
CURED on the 14th. June wheat decline ed
twenty cents a bushel, the clique wen
to pieces and a number of the principal
brokerage firms were thrown into bank
ruptcy.
LONDON reports from Afghanistan indi-
cate that the fate of the Ameer is critical
and the success of the revolt very prob
able, in which event most serious COM
plications are likely to follow between
Great Britain and Russia.
Efforts are still being made in London
and Rome to bring about friendly un-
derstanding between England and the
Vatican.
ONM MunuAGA IA AQitAa III lu6 y uAtGu
States and Canada were re presented in
the Association of Medical Supcrintend-
ents of American Institutions for the In
sane, which began its session at Detroit,
Mich, on the 14th. This is the forty-first
annual meeting
ENGLISH trades unions are opposed to
the proposed international congress of
workingmen.
THE Naval Academy visitors have
recommended that thirteen inefficient
cadets be dropped, aud four re-examin ed
JOHN VANDERBILT, one of the three men
who were arrested on the charge Of at
tempted embracery in connection with the
Jake Sharpe trial in New York, was dis
charged on the l4th, rs was also Warner,
another of the men so charged. The case
of Lynch will come up on the 18th.
THE Dominion Senate has decided,
against the wishes of the government, to
allow Chinese women 10 enter Canada
without paying poll-tax.
DOCUMENTS are displayed in the Morse
department of the American Exhibition
at London with the object or showing
that the continent of America was DIS
coverd in 9S5 by an Icelander named Left
Erikson.
LoUrsnURG harbor. Nova Scotia, is said
TO be full of American schOoners loaded
with macl1erel, all taken within the three
mile limit Twenty passed Ingoist north
ward bound on the 14th. Ole trawIer
took over so quintals of cod on the
river banks from bait procured at Mag
dalen.
HARTFORD, CoNN., on the l4th, observed
the one hundred and tc nth anniversary Of
the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as
the Nations emblem. Flags were dis
played from the prncinai buildings. AT
two o'clock the statue TO Nathan Hale, the
martyr spy" was unvaiied at the Cap
itol. Charles Du Hey Warner making tho
address Of presentation to the State.
On the 18th ST. Mary's Episcopal Church
at Boston was gutted by fire Loss, SO,
900. The hre is believed 10 have been OF
incendiary origin.
Two recently completed sections Of the
Cascade branch OF the Northern Pacific